article thumbnail

Clouded Judgement 9.29.23 - Rates Keep Going Up

Clouded Judgement

Pretty crazy to think about - growth adjusted multiples are near pre-covid all time highs (excluding 2020-2021 period) even though rates are as high as they’ve been since 2007 (and double what they were on average from 2010-2020). The government is going through quite a bit of quantitative tightening. So what’s going on?

Cloud 183
article thumbnail

The UK Is a Fintech Regulatory Superpower

Andreessen Horowitz

If you want to see the future of financial services regulation, look to the UK The foundation: UK’s banking market and infrastructure In 2010, the UK was dominated by a small handful of large banks. In the wake of the financial crisis, the government nationalized one of the largest banks and had to intervene in several others.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

RBS automates away £7 million in manual server provisioning tasks

IT World

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group – which will soon be rebranded as Natwest Group under new CEO Alison Rose – has been on a big technology modernization drive since its government bailout after the 2007 banking crisis. To read this article in full, please click here

article thumbnail

The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2007. Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. By the end of 2018, Shopify managed to bank over $1 Billion in revenue, reaching quite the milestone and rightfully earning the crown of top SaaS company. Based in: New York.

article thumbnail

7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We started the business in 2007. We worked closely with Silicon Valley Bank, and we got a line of credit based on a multiple of our recurring revenue. And so, as the business grew, the line of credit grew and we just kept burning all the money that we could get from the bank. We sold the business in 2012.

article thumbnail

The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2007. Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. By the end of 2018, Shopify managed to bank over $1 Billion in revenue, reaching quite the milestone there. Founders: Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, Kevin Ryan. Based in: New York.

article thumbnail

Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

Our bank account takes a hit. I’ve followed Jill Konrath since 2007, when I subscribed to her “Selling to Big Companies” blog. Every story of a good innovation—whether it’s a new product, a new service, a new business model or a new form of governance—begins and ends with people. How did forget?” Our sales suffer.

Scale 141